TTPrograms

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by TTPrograms 5y ago
In the past I wrote a simple formula evaluator in Python I used to replicate some multicell calculation - the spreadsheet I had took the form of mostly simple algebra being performed in a scanning pattern against various small windows in ti
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
Kerbal Space Program intuition tells me that the worst case is that you produce a high velocity piece of debris aligned perpendicular to radial vector, e.g. aligned with the existing orbit. I think this is a fairly unlikely direction to tra
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
It seems like analyzing fault here is important. Maybe driving late at night makes it more likely you will be hit by another driver (e.g. a drunk driver)?
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
I'm not sure that works when you paid for X cheese dogs per hour.
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
Can you give OOM of any of the improvements? Eg. crash rates halved?
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
Would it make sense for the TLA+ source to just be a subset of LaTeX, then? At least some fraction of the potential userbase is already familiar with that.
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by TTPrograms 5y ago
It seems perfectly viable to distribute revenues to DAO NFT holders - why do think that's not possible now? Are you saying the contract is not legally enforceable? It seems straightforward to have the DAO distribute any incoming tokens
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
The Fermi Paradox is not real if you consider the massive uncertainty we have on the parameters of the Drake equation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
I feel like I disagree with the bottom-line a bit - a 100/0 split seems to ignore the possibility that a future stable state of the Ethereum network will be capable of supporting stablecoins or other coins with arbitrary monetary polic
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
Choosing to engage in these sorts of bets systematically exclusively and not individually only makes sense if you're not maximizing expected return. You also don't know if I engage in these sorts of bets systematically.
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
To you and the other comment - as much as I dislike Taleb's rhetoric, this is precisely the sort of bet he has made a lot of money on. People round rare event probability down to zero, and if you bet against them enough with sufficient
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
For a post on a blog presumably focused on statistics the author seems oddly concerned with a model that predicts odd events as being "possible". The difference between "possible" and "impossible" is \eps <&
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
I think you are hiding a key assumption - that an AGI must be capable of performing optimally on a task with Archimedean measure. This is a very strong assumption - performing eps-close to optimal may certainly fall in the definition of AGI
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
You only get 80% of the gains if your data distribution is stationary and/or you can construct a non-ML solution with near 80% of the ML one. If a non-ML solution is that close to non-ML then I would just stick with that - the advantag
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
This is a toy/neat experiment that someone made and they explicitly say you should not use it for production. This sort of criticism is inappropriate (or at best, poorly framed). This is Hacker News, and this is a Hack. If I made a bot
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
That's called "Two's Complement" - here for 64 bit integers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement Say x = (2^64 - s) in a 64 bit integer. Then (x + s) = 2^64 = 0 (as 2^64 rolls over to 0
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
In a postnuclear world this comparison is absurd.
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
I'd say that behavior is similar to if an individual in, say, a school or assembly, shouted "FIRE" upon witnessing a chemistry demonstration involving a controlled flame. If that somehow caused a stampede resulting in loss of
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
The problem is that you have every Jane and Joe who's ever put a line through a set of points making graphs and arguments that conflict with the consensus of epidemiologists/social statisticians. It's fine (and good!) to inve
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
Are they really both significant issues? A successful cyber attack could enable a single individual to decide multiple elections. A voter id attack could enable at most, what, 10 votes per conspirator? An undetected voter id fraud changing
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
I often encounter (especially among academics) people who are quick to refute questions or ideas on trivial grounds based on trivial formal description errors of the type described in this post. To any non-expert the intent of the ideas or
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
It's sort of crazy to make such a sweeping decision based on one case - especially when remote collaboration tools are improving on a quarterly basis. Of course statements like this are just rationalizations - not arguments employed to
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
Interestingly, this perspective (which I also subscribe to, broadly speaking) resolves one of the core paradoxes with utilitarian philosophies - if you believe the moral value of existing has any positive value with respect to not existing,
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
I would also love this feature, but I understand the argument that it's major feature-creep for this project - as I understand, with mosh as implemented it would be difficult to integrate. IIRC they would have to roll some kind of TCP
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by TTPrograms 6y ago
Why does this company sell N95 masks as well? For a company selling 3 products that's a strange combination - unless this company is just some sort of distributor. In the latter case, why is this news?
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by TTPrograms 7y ago
Do you get vaccines? After all, vaccines can have adverse outcomes. The overall mortality rate for mumps is .01%, so why bother inconveniencing yourself if the impact is going to be so negligible? A German report that came out today indicat
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by TTPrograms 7y ago
A better solution would be to scramble parts of this fingerprint for each domain.
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by TTPrograms 7y ago
How much confidence do we have that the literal base pair encoding of DNA encodes the entirety (or even the majority) of the information needed to construct an individual, anyway? As the author mentions, you have things like histone dynamic
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by TTPrograms 7y ago
Which formerly moderate views do you believe are being de-normalized by "editors and academics with agendas"?
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by TTPrograms 7y ago
I'm not sure the addition of white vinegar should be of any particular concern... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2903/j.efs

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